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like a Neanderthal." As we will see in the next chapter, Neanderthals are
a modern human race. Therefore, Homo erectus is also a modern human
race.
Even the evolutionist Richard Leakey states that the differences be-
tween Homo erectus and modern man are no more than racial variance:
One would also see differences in the shape of the skull, in the degree of pro-
trusion of the face, the robustness of the brows and so on. These differences
are probably no more pronounced than we see today between the separate
geographical races of modern humans. Such biological variation arises
when populations are geographically separated from each other for signifi-
cant lengths of time. 85
Professor William Laughlin from the University of Connecticut made
extensive anatomical examinations of Inuits and the people living on the
Aleut islands, and noticed that these people were extraordinarily similar
to Homo erectus. The conclusion Laughlin arrived at was that all these dis-
tinct races were in fact different races of Homo sapiens (today’s man).
When we consider the vast differences that exist between remote groups
such as Eskimos and Bushmen, who are known to belong to the single
species of Homo sapiens, it seems justifiable to conclude that Sinanthropus [an
erectus specimen] belongs within this same diverse species. 86
It is now a more pronounced fact in the scientific community that
Homo erectus is a superfluous taxon, and that fossils assigned to the Homo
erectus class are actually not so different from
Homo sapiens as to be considered a different
species. In American Scientist, the discussions over
this issue and the result of a conference held on
the subject in 2000 were summarised in this way:
Most of the participants at the Senckenberg con-
ference got drawn into a flaming debate over the
taxonomic status of Homo erectus started by Mil-
ford Wolpoff of the University of Michigan, Alan
Thorne of the University of Canberra and their
colleagues. They argued forcefully that Homo erec- IMAGINARY
tus had no validity as a species and should be DRAWING
eliminated altogether. All members of the genus
Homo, from about 2 million years ago to the pre-
FALSE MASKS: Although
sent, were one highly variable, widely spread no different from today’s
species, Homo sapiens, with no natural breaks or man, Neanderthals are
subdivisions. The subject of the conference, Homo still depicted as ape-like
erectus didn't exist. 87 by evolutionists.